Heart-Sick Groans

Heart-Sick Groans – “Black Hair Typography” -EP

I didn’t quite realize how much I missed receiving new music from Heart-Sick Groans until I listened to their new four-track EP “Black Hair Typography”. Cause it’s been a couple of years since I heard from them, and the singer Johan Brännström explains: “We had to find out if there’s more to life than music. There isn’t.”
It’s an EP where I feel at home, but at the same time they sound more unique than ever before in their special blend of sunny folk-indiepop. There are four songs, each one with it’s own character, and my favourite varies every time I listen. It’s like a lovely spring pastry, sweet and tasty, but which tastes a bit different depending on from which side you start to eat. Here are two songs:

Björns vänner – “Märker ni ingenting alls?” – EP

Björns vänner, hailing from Malmö, had a short but colourful career between 2002 and 2005. Yesterday they made a comeback with a brand new EP, which is also a first taste of a new album coming out in the Autumn. The band wasn’t part of my own musical menu back in those days, but I can understand the passion among their fanbase for the band’s uncromising rock sound and Rickard Schickes lyrics when I listen to these new songs.

Erik Christoffer – “Spanish Orange Trees”

And now a debut release. We like debuts here on Meadowmusic, as you may have noticed. It’s Erik Christoffer who has released the song “Spanish Orange Trees”, a bittersweet piano driven ballad about a Spanish adventure.

Heart-Sick Groan’s singer Johan Brännström has released a row of  singles and EP’s as a solo artist, where he and his guitar travels into classic Dylan-inspired grounds. It’s been a little more than a year since his last single, but now he’s back with three songs on the EP “New Set of Dreams”, containing some of his absolutely best songs so far. Beautiful, with memorable, simple melodies, where he finishes with this Simon & Garfunkel-vibing “In a Midsummer’s Night, which you can hear below.

Johan Brännström on Facebook – on Bandcamp

In a Midsummer’s Night

Some month ago Heart-Sick Groans released their third EP, “Look​!​!​! These Three Painters of Hits Have Done It Again!”. It was about a year ago we wrote about their last EP, and since then, the singer Johan Brännström, also has released his own music.

To some extent this EP sounds differently, since there is a certain Hawaii-feeling in several of the songs, but in the end I recognize their uplifting, light indie pop and hooky melodies. Listen here below in a couple of tracks.

You can listen to the EP and downloads iton their Bandcamp page and you can also find them on Facebook.

Surfer Friend
With Samantha From the Car Wash

Heart-Sick Groans put a smile to many faces a little more than a year ago, also here on Meadowmusic. Now they are here again with the EP “Gentlemen, If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!”, and this at a time that fits the music even better. Cause it feels vernal, maybe even summerish from their nice and special folk-indie.

You can listen to and download the EP on their Bandcamp page. Here are a couple of songs:

Streetlight Chase
You Look Like Rain

Here’s some music that hopefully puts you in a good mood. Don’t get fool by the name Heart-Sick Groans, because the ambience is just opposite of what could be expected. Fun.

This is happy indie pop with folk influences. Imaginative, playful and mostly acoustic arrangements, with a violin, with tasteful effects and nice harmonies that are laid out in the best Beautiful South manner.

Earlier this year they released the EP “Oh, I Can Do a Number of Things”, and you can listen to a song from the EP below, “The Season For Us”. Now they are recording some new material, from which you can listen to “Suddenly Molly” here.

The Season For Us
Suddenly Molly

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Other music sites and blogs about Heart-sick Groans: Swedesplease, Absolutepunk.net, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted